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...Lehman Brothers. So after those two pillars of U.S. finance crumbled, German cities suddenly faced the risk of having to make huge payments - taken together, as much as €30 billion ($40 billion), according to some estimates - to their American investors. (Read "Why Berlin Says U.S. 'Bad Bank' Plan...
...case of BVG, the insurance was provided by Hypo-Vereinsbank, the Landesbank Berlin (LBB) and Credit Suisse. The LBB was privatized in 2007. Expecting that LBB would be downgraded by ratings agencies, BVG was planning to insure its assets through another state-owned bank in Germany, the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg. But city officials say BVG's advisor, J.P. Morgan, suggested the transit company spread the risk by insuring the deal through a collateralized debt obligation, or CDO, backed by a consortium of some 150 banks and insurers that included AIG and Lehman Brothers...
...Morgan has yet to demand payment from BVG, but in October the bank filed with a London court to ensure that London would be the jurisdiction for any court proceedings with BVG. That move possibly suggests that J.P. Morgan is preparing a claim against BVG. Reetz, the BVG spokeswoman, says the transportation company learned of the J.P. Morgan filing last week when BVG filed to have a trial in Berlin should there be one. "So far, no one has come forward with any demands for payment. But if they do, we will fight them in court. And we want...
...German towns and cities are appealing to the German government to bail them out. In March, a group of municipal authorities appealed to the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, or KfW, Germany's Marshall Fund-era state-owned bank for reconstruction and development, to buy out AIG and replace it as their credit insurer. The plan might work, but KfW is reluctant. "We are looking into the matter," a KfW spokeswoman says...
...stock market stormed up Thursday on good earnings news from the bank sector, but there was bad news on another front that could undermine the surge. The second round of the Federal Reserve's attempt to restart the nonbank consumer-lending market, the so-called TALF program, went even worse than the faltering first round did last month. The poor performance is causing some Fed officials to doubt the entire premise of the effort to restart nonbank credit markets. "We know there are people out there interested in putting subscriptions together," says a Fed official, "but the larger question...